First published as the hardback What is Chemistry? The infrastructure of the modern world
A lively authoritative introduction, celebrating the importance of chemistry
Explains its basic st ... Read more
Explains the role that taxes play in a modern economy
Describes some of the main taxes used by most developed and developing countries
Consideres the key issues: the question of where the burde ... Read more
Integrates figures from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic philosophy to demonstrate the interrelations between Abrahamic religions and the Islamic world
Places Islamic Philosophy in its cultural con ... Read more
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universi ... Read more
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A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinker ... Read more
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universi ... Read more
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A new edition of George Eliot's last great novel, whose dual plot and Jewish storyline encompass issues that remain controversial and current in the twenty-first century.
The novel combines a pow ... Read more
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Provides a unique overview of modern mineralogy
Explains how minerals grow and transform deep in the Earth
Emphasizes the importance of minerals as resources
Explores the importance of minera ... Read more
Organized by theme to introduce the 'big ideas' in Egyptian art and architecture
Looks at how ancient Egyptian buildings and works of art were designed and made
Explores specific examples of ar ... Read more
A concise account of the most biodiverse ocean ecosystem
Explains how coral reefs are created and have evolved
Explores the geological and biological importance coral reefs hold and what we have l ... Read more
